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Getting in the Holiday Spirit · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: This is the almost Famous podcast.
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  Speaker 3: We are here with some incredible guests, some incredible talents
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  Speaker 3: and people you may know. Joe and Serena, Susan and Kathy.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the Holiday episode of the Almost Famous podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Yay, We're so happy to be Yes, we're back.
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  Speaker 5: We told you we want you.
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  Speaker 2: Joe and Serena. We're happy to see you too.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, guys, where are you.
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  Speaker 2: They're in New York.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we're in my parents' backyard in Marca right now.
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  Speaker 5: Oh goodness, out of Canada. I heard the flight was canceled.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is a whole I will say that Marco
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  Speaker 3: for the holidays is not a bad idea. It's nice
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  Speaker 3: and warm and always comforting.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing a holiday episode today. We're sipping Kim Crawford wine.
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  Speaker 3: We're enjoying our time together. Obviously, Joe and Serena are
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  Speaker 3: celebrating with their family. We're celebrating here as a family.
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  Speaker 4: We're family.
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  Speaker 3: We're family at this point. I mean, we've obviously been
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  Speaker 3: around each other for some great memories. Now, Kathy season,
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  Speaker 3: we've done quite a few, quite a few things together.
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  Speaker 5: What'd you get me? Yeah, I get a gift.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a big hug at the end of this. All right,
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  Speaker 3: I have some questions and I'm going to go in order.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go in clockwise fashion here. Just to
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  Speaker 3: keep this easy, Kathy, what is your favorite holiday tradition?
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  Speaker 4: You know that's easy for me. I am a big
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  Speaker 4: needle pointer, believe it or not, and so every year
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  Speaker 4: I love my family to come over and we decorate
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  Speaker 4: the tree with all my homemade needle point ornaments.
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  Speaker 3: So talk about needle pointing. Tell me more about what
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  Speaker 3: that actually is.
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  Speaker 4: So needle pointing is a very time intensive with threads
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  Speaker 4: and needles and very small care. This with lots of
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  Speaker 4: small holes in it, and you have to really pay attention.
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  Speaker 4: And that's when I really focus making my ornaments. It
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  Speaker 4: takes a lot of time, but it's beautiful colors of
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  Speaker 4: fibers and fabrics and I make them and then I
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  Speaker 4: have like sixty homemade ornaments.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, a couple follow up questions here for you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you're now teaching your kids yep? And what two grandkids?
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh?
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  Speaker 2: When did you start teaching them?
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  Speaker 4: So I'm trying to get my five year old granddaughter
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  Speaker 4: to start. She's a little young yet my sixty month old,
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  Speaker 4: you know, would rather eat it than so. But it's
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  Speaker 4: one of those things that when they're old enough, I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to teach them. Because my kids come over, my
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  Speaker 4: grown kids, and they look at the ornaments and they say, Mom,
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  Speaker 4: I remember the year you made that bird or that
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  Speaker 4: sled or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: They remember, and what age were you when you started
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  Speaker 2: doing this.
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  Speaker 4: I was thirty five pregnant with my last child, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and I needed something to calm me down, and so
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  Speaker 4: I took a needle point You.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I am expecting a child now in two months,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to make you an ornament.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I'm thinking I'm gonna start needle pointing. That
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  Speaker 2: was my point here.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you that's the least. That's what you
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  Speaker 4: should start doing. Try and breathe slowly.
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  Speaker 3: I don't do a lot right now. My role is
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  Speaker 3: very limited now, Susan. Obviously we know you for how
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  Speaker 3: talented you are at cooking.
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  Speaker 5: It's just going to say they all come over.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so let's I want to hear. It's a two
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  Speaker 3: part question that's going to be easy to answer. What
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  Speaker 3: kind of my question is what vibe do you expect
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  Speaker 3: to try to set up for that holiday dinner? And
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  Speaker 3: then what is your favorite like food to serve during
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  Speaker 3: that dinner.
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  Speaker 7: We start with Thanksgiving, Okay, it's like a traditional thing,
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  Speaker 7: and I make all twenty some of them stand up
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  Speaker 7: and say something that they were grateful for. But they
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  Speaker 7: like Christmas better because you can come in your jommies.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody has to get dressed up for Christmas. And I
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  Speaker 7: start cooking months before and I freeze the meatballs, the gravy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: everything's in the freezer so that when the time comes,
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  Speaker 7: I'm just the frosting and heating things up and then
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  Speaker 7: making the pasta of course fresh, and the ham and so.
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  Speaker 3: You make the own sauce like when you and do
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  Speaker 3: you do the shells?
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes we do.
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  Speaker 3: So I go to the Italian dinner with my wife
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  Speaker 3: because my wife's family's one hundred percent Italian, and the
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  Speaker 3: grandma always is making the homemade shell stuff shells and
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  Speaker 3: it's like a four course dinner and it's wildly awesome.
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  Speaker 7: And does she have the salad last? Yes, that is
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  Speaker 7: true Italian. We eat the pasta first and then the meats,
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  Speaker 7: and then.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm in a foreign country right now.
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea what you're talking about, either one
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  Speaker 4: of you.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's it's uh, Kathy, this is a good point
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  Speaker 3: to sit on. So when I married my wife, she
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  Speaker 3: is one hundred percent Italian. I went to there the
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  Speaker 3: holiday dinner with them. It was awesome, but it was
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  Speaker 3: unlike anything I've ever experienced because the whole family gets together.
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  Speaker 3: It is coursed out. So you have the the susan.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna have to help me out here. So the meats,
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  Speaker 3: what do you call that?
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  Speaker 5: We do sausage?
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  Speaker 2: But what is that called? That's called no, when it's
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  Speaker 2: on the menu, like, it's uh, it's like.
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  Speaker 4: Good anti pasta.
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  Speaker 8: And got it?
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  Speaker 2: Not even Italian?
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  Speaker 3: Kathy, welcome, So there is okay, So we have a
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  Speaker 3: couple of Italians on the podcast right now. Walk me
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  Speaker 3: through the different stages of the dinner that LEAs.
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  Speaker 5: Start with the soup.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, I say thettle soup, but it's escarol soup with
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  Speaker 7: the little tiny meatballs and the escarl and chicken soup
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  Speaker 7: with That's a.
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  Speaker 2: Start, and then what's next?
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  Speaker 5: And then we.
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  Speaker 7: Start with our pasta and our meat balls and our sausage, and.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when's the antipasta come?
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  Speaker 5: That's on the table the entire time.
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  Speaker 2: Ye see, there's a whole different course. It's already there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wait is this for Christmas Day?
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  Speaker 5: It's for every.
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  Speaker 2: For every Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: It's literally every Sunday the year exhausted, it's wild, all right,
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  Speaker 3: So we're gonna go to Joe. Now, Joe, you're probably
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  Speaker 3: hearing all this relating to the Italian dinner, right.
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  Speaker 8: A fellow Italian.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it sounds familiar than Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Joe, are you still doing this every Sunday with your family?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 9: No, but Christmas Christmas Eve is the Italian dinner, and
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  Speaker 9: that's with all the fish. We don't do the seven fishes,
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  Speaker 9: but we just we probably have like fish.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry for those of us who are not Italian.
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  Speaker 5: The seven?
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  Speaker 4: Why seven fishes?
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  Speaker 5: Why not five?
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  Speaker 4: Why not?
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  Speaker 5: Something to do?
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  Speaker 2: Was biblical?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 8: I think it's a Catholic. I think it's a Catholic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the seventh like it's the loads of bread
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  Speaker 3: and the fish that Jesus did, the servant, whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's a very like traditional like there's a
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  Speaker 3: reason behind it. So Joe, you're I know you're a
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  Speaker 3: massive fan of the Bachelor and Bachelorette. You can't get
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  Speaker 3: enough of it. And so I thought of this question
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  Speaker 3: when I thought of you. If there is a dish
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  Speaker 3: that you would have for your holiday dinner that you
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  Speaker 3: would give a rose to. Which dish would that be?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 8: Baked clams?
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  Speaker 2: Why tell me more?
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  Speaker 6: I've never eaten bake clams at one of your family functions.
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  Speaker 9: But hey, grant that you've never been to Christmas Eve
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  Speaker 9: because you got COVID.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, really, really.
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  Speaker 8: You were really sick. But to me, baked clams. Did
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  Speaker 8: you have baked clams when you were I always had clams,
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  Speaker 8: Bay clams.
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  Speaker 9: That's my favorite for the holidays. And it also, bake
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  Speaker 9: clams really just remind me of Chicago, Chicago Italian restaurants.
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  Speaker 9: It makes me feel like home. And if I was
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  Speaker 9: the Bachelor, I would probably give the woman that made
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  Speaker 9: me feel like home my first rows.
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  Speaker 8: I'm Joe.
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  Speaker 2: I would have done bake clams.
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  Speaker 5: No, she would have ordered out, Okay, I would.
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  Speaker 4: Have ordered the man. I honest to god, I've never
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  Speaker 4: heard of baked clams. I'm from New England. I've never
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  Speaker 4: heard of baked clams.
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  Speaker 9: I don't even think it's that. I guess it's an
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  Speaker 9: Italian dish, but I feel like it.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, honestly, I'd never had them until I went
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  Speaker 6: Chicago with him, and really only eat them at a time.
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  Speaker 7: New York restaurant in Philadelphia and Jersey they all have it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I would say it's big in Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Serena, Uh, what's.
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  Speaker 5: Your favorite meal, Serena.
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  Speaker 8: What's my favorite meal?
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  Speaker 6: Well, tonight my mom made beer canned chicken, which I
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  Speaker 6: don't know if you guys know.
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  Speaker 4: That beer in the butt. It's beer in the butt chicken, right, totally,
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  Speaker 4: you've done it. Wait, I have made that beer in
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  Speaker 4: the butt. I cant believe it, Susan, but wait, you
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  Speaker 4: have a can of beer and you put it up
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  Speaker 4: the butt of the chicken and bake it.
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  Speaker 5: Am I right, you are correct.
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  Speaker 6: So we made that tonight, and Joe was saying, I
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  Speaker 6: don't know why we have turkey on holidays because we
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  Speaker 6: should just make chicken on the barbecue, Like this is
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  Speaker 6: so much better.
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  Speaker 10: Chicken is a superior burd And I feel like turkey
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  Speaker 10: is controversial, like not everyone is a turkey fan, but
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  Speaker 10: I love turkey on the holidays because really, the only time.
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  Speaker 6: We eat it is like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, you and I grew up together exactly, that's the
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  Speaker 4: only time you eat turkey.
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  Speaker 5: So you don't get a ham. You don't do a
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  Speaker 5: ham on any.
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  Speaker 8: Of the sometimes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I do family throughout the year more often than
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  Speaker 6: I will turkey.
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  Speaker 9: I'm totally fine with the rest of my life never
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  Speaker 9: eating turkey or ham or Thanksgiving dinner.
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  Speaker 5: Ever, you no more turkey?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think Thanksgiving dinner is like, maybe one of
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  Speaker 9: my least.
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  Speaker 6: Favorite that I had never had until I started dating Joe,
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  Speaker 6: was you guys put marshmallows on your sweet potato. Of course,
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  Speaker 6: that's really not a Canadian thing. I never had that
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  Speaker 6: until I had thanks for dinner with his family.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, what listen, Serena, Serena, let me just
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  Speaker 4: start with you celebrate Thanksgiving on the wrong day, So
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  Speaker 4: let's start with.
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  Speaker 3: That, Serena, that is a question that I'm curious about.
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  Speaker 3: You are from Canada, so obviously Thanksgiving is not a
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  Speaker 3: holiday that you would traditionally celebrate. So to come to
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  Speaker 3: the US, be living in the US now, and to
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  Speaker 3: celebrate Thanksgiving. Is that a new thing or is that
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  Speaker 3: something you're like familiar with, Like what is it? Like
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of traditions I'm sure in Canada I
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  Speaker 3: am very unfamiliar with, Like I don't I don't know
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  Speaker 3: about So were you familiar with what the United States
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  Speaker 3: does on the third November or the third Thursday of November?
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  Speaker 6: So yes, and no, Like we do celebrate Thanksgiving, it's
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  Speaker 6: just the second Monday of October.
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  Speaker 8: Yusually it's early October that we celebrated.
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  Speaker 6: And I would say it's similar in terms of like
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  Speaker 6: food and being thankful, but you guys take it to
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  Speaker 6: a whole other level, like it's a way bigger deal.
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  Speaker 6: Like we'll Toronto sports game and have dinner with our
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  Speaker 6: family are extended family, and it's great. But going to
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  Speaker 6: the US just like Cyber Friday or like Cyber Monday,
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  Speaker 6: Black Friday football game, like it's just way more of
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  Speaker 6: an event.
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  Speaker 4: So, Serena, my sister is a Canadian citizen. I think
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  Speaker 4: you know that she lives in Canada and they always
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  Speaker 4: say Canadian Thanksgiving in Canada, you guys say Canadian Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess we do well because in all, like
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  Speaker 6: most movies and TV shows and a lot of pulp
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  Speaker 6: culture like Thanksgiving TV specials like The Friends Thanksgiving Special
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  Speaker 6: or the Gossip Girl Thank You especial would always air
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  Speaker 6: end of Thanksgiving, so we would kind of feel that
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  Speaker 6: festivity with you guys, even though we weren't celebrating. But
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  Speaker 6: I will say celebrating Thanksgiving middle of October. The leaves
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  Speaker 6: are changing. It's so warm out. It's better weather, and
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  Speaker 6: it just feels very fall I like that it's before Halloween.
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  Speaker 6: Like I feel like going into Thanksgiving? Are you guys,
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  Speaker 6: It's like you're just waiting for Christmas at that point.
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  Speaker 5: We only have so many days. I can't disagree thanks.
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  Speaker 6: Savings when you're right.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't you are who's inviting me this year?
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  Speaker 4: But you're right.
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  Speaker 7: He goes and buys the wine.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very talented Yeah, that's a big deal. You
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  Speaker 3: can have a bottle of Kim Crawford.
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  Speaker 4: There's nothing better than Kim Crawford's salmon blanc. It's one
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  Speaker 4: of my favorites.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have in the fridge.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get it right after this, all right, So I
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  Speaker 3: think everybody in this room right now is a vibe setter.
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  Speaker 3: I think they care about their times together with people,
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  Speaker 3: and I think they care about their families. So rapid fire,
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  Speaker 3: we'll go around the circle again. What kind of like
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  Speaker 3: vibe do you want to see at the holiday season? Like,
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  Speaker 3: what do you want when you go to bed and
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  Speaker 3: you lay your head on that pillow at night? What
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  Speaker 3: do you just hope to remember or feel or know
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  Speaker 3: about that day that you.
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  Speaker 2: Spent for the holidays? Kathy will start with you.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So Christmas for many people is about gifts, and yes,
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  Speaker 4: I want my kids to be and my grandkids to
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  Speaker 4: be happy with their gifts, but honestly, I want my
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  Speaker 4: family to remember what the holiday is really about the
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  Speaker 4: birth of Christ and the grateful being grateful for their
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  Speaker 4: lives and feeling together as a family and appreciating each
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  Speaker 4: other and going to bed being so thankful that we
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  Speaker 4: have each other.
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  Speaker 2: It's beautiful. So how do you help cultivate that? Then?
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  Speaker 3: Like, how do you help cultivate the fact that your
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  Speaker 3: grandchildren and your kids are leaving whatever place that you're
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  Speaker 3: celebrating going.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just happy we did.
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  Speaker 4: This because at dinner we talk about Christmas and what
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  Speaker 4: our year has been like and what it's something we
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  Speaker 4: love about or something we're grateful for. We do it
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  Speaker 4: at Thanksgiving, but we also do it at Christmas. And
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  Speaker 4: I want my children and my grandchildren to know that,
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  Speaker 4: above all, there's nothing more important than family.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful Susan.
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  Speaker 7: It's about sharing time together. And we have a lot
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  Speaker 7: of laughter on Christmas, silly things. Nobody gets in trouble
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  Speaker 7: for doing anything, and my kids are mostly grateful because
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  Speaker 7: I'm not a freak about cleaning up after everybody.
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  Speaker 5: I just let it go on Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Teach me, Teach me how because I'm very not okay
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  Speaker 3: with that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not okay with it either.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's bad. I got a.
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  Speaker 7: Trash game right over here at trash break for the
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  Speaker 7: wrapping paper, and I just I breathe through it and
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  Speaker 7: just let especially my grandchildren just.
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  Speaker 5: Rip it apart.
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  Speaker 7: And I hate when their mom and dad let them
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  Speaker 7: open things, certain things that I'm going to find pieces
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  Speaker 7: or colorful things, my white carpet and things like that. Sure,
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  Speaker 7: but when I lay my head down, I'm so grateful
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  Speaker 7: for the laughter and the bonding that we're all together,
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  Speaker 7: everybody's there.
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  Speaker 5: That's the best part for us.
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  Speaker 4: What about you?
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  Speaker 2: What about you?
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  Speaker 1: Ben?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think I think I would just like
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  Speaker 3: mirror a lot of what you said. For me, my
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  Speaker 3: family makes a fun of me because I have this
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  Speaker 3: common question that I don't even mean to ask, that
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  Speaker 3: I ask every time we're all together, is everybody doing okay?
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  Speaker 3: So for me, it is this kind of like vibe
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  Speaker 3: of I just want everybody to experience the joy that
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  Speaker 3: not as is expected, but is desired, And I just
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  Speaker 3: want everybody to be happy being in that moment.
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  Speaker 7: Like so you ask them, are you okay when they
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  Speaker 7: get there for the holiday?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, like throughout the day, like I like, like, you know, randomly.
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  Speaker 4: Let me just say, if you give them enough alcohol,
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  Speaker 4: they'll be okay.
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  Speaker 5: What about you, guys, I.
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  Speaker 8: Mean we're on different pages.
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  Speaker 6: Say I bet you give the same one say one
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  Speaker 6: word to describe Christmas on three okay, the one word, Well.
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  Speaker 8: That's not nothinking it just Christmas.
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  Speaker 6: But okay, okay, ready three to one.
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  Speaker 5: Cookies.
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  Speaker 9: I like like holiday scented candles, decorations. I love being
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  Speaker 9: in New York for the holidays because it's such a
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  Speaker 9: festive city. I want like friends, Thanksgiving on different Christmas movies,
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  Speaker 9: holiday movies. I want Chevy Chase on my screen a lot.
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  Speaker 9: I like cookies in the oven. I like decorations.
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  Speaker 8: I like gifts. I'm like, I'm a chop, I'm a child.
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  Speaker 6: Christmas to Joe is still what it was when he
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  Speaker 6: was like eight years old.
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  Speaker 4: Hold Joe, I want to know Serena, who makes all
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: that happen for Joe.
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  Speaker 6: I would say, he really does a lot.
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  Speaker 8: He really does a lot.
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  Speaker 6: We will decorate together, but like he's like, we're going out,
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: We're getting Christmas decorations.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to hold on for real real tree we
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: live with artificial We live in New.
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  Speaker 8: York in my childhood home growing up.
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  Speaker 6: Every year we have we go and cut down a
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: real tree, like still to this day.
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  Speaker 9: Serena for Christmas last year got me the home Alone
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: two experience, which was what a eight year old boy
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: got when he was living alone in New York.
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: She got in the same ding and I was probably
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: more excited than him.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're really happy I got. I surprised, Like a
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: night at the Plaza Hotel.
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: I got.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: It's a limo to go to dinner, like a stretch
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: limo with the Joe's Pizza inside. And then we went
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: back and we watched Home on two in an ice
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: cream Sunday And honestly, I don't think I can off
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: it this year, Like a took me.
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  Speaker 7: Two months to plan it all the Godfathers, Dapes, Scrooge,
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  Speaker 7: so Serena.
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  Speaker 3: Is there anything you would add to this, like when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to the vibe that you hope people experience.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I think the word that my dad always
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: us growing up was magical, Like you just felt Christmas
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: was so magical and He's like, obviously having young kids
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  Speaker 6: helps that, but I think as too, adults with no children,
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  Speaker 6: it's still important to create that sense of magic even
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: like we're adults, right, Like it's easy just kind of
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: let go of that and have it become like a
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: lot of chores and a lot of cooking and a
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: lot of planning. But I feel like we do try
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  Speaker 6: to keep the magic alive and still feel like kids on.
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  Speaker 8: With every adult there's a kid inside, right.
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  Speaker 5: You know what's your favorite Christmas cookie?
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: I mean, I love gingerbread. I love the gingerbread men.
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: I also love like just the jingle cookies with.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: The sugar cookies, sugar cookie. Do you like evergot ourbiscottis.
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  Speaker 2: Or no sugar cookie.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you, I hate those years round In another world,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I feel like Joe's nickname could be Schnickerdoodle snicker I do,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I just see it.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I love a good chocolate chip.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Now we're closing up here, final thoughts on kind of
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: the holidays and what we all experience. Now we're just
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: entering into this season. Uh, I guess to end, I
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: think it would be special to share in twenty twenty four,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: just one thing. What are you most thankful for? And
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I can start. I have a baby doing three months?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Oh pretty exciting? Yeah, yeah, happy, all right, Kathy.
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  Speaker 4: I am so grateful for my family and my grandchildren
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: and their health and their love for me and my
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: love for them.
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  Speaker 7: I am so grateful and feel so blessed for the
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: year that I'm having. It's been a fabulous, fabulous year.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: I'm thankful for. I'm thankful for getting into the game
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: of golf. I feel like it's a hobby I can
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: keep working on and and getting better.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: Is yours go on? And I'm just really excited for this.
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: Journey and I support.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Supported you get him a new club for Christmas, to.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: Know what he has.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: Everything you could imagine golf related and you've been playing.
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: I'm a forty handicap. I walked through the airport. I
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: got all brand.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: You lot.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: I'm putting that for our apartment. I wake up in
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: the morning and go out to make my coffee. He's
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: hutting in the middle of our time.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Just I'm just letting you know. That's not uncommon, nor
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: is it unexpected. And it just gets worse and better
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: all the same time.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: I appreciate the word.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Let me just say, some of the best views in
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: the world are on golf courses. Oh man, It's some
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: of the best views.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: And some of the best memories ever made.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, So let me add one thing.
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: So when I started playing, I actually told my ex
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: husband I apologize. He goes, what do you mean? I said,
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: I get it. I used to be watching the clock.
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: It should only take four hours to play eighteen holes,
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: and he didn't drink.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: So why would you go to the nineteenth hole? Why
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: does it take you so long?
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: And now that I play, I'm like, I am say,
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I understand that translation. Susan spends a lot of time
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: at the nineteenth hole.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe, welcome to the club, and welcome to the
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: club for everybody here. This has been part one of
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: the holiday episode. This has been the almost of his podcast.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: When we come back, you can check out this second
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: part of this on Bachelor Happy Hour.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: We're going to start out with this.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Question, so you all think about, Okay, this is how
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: we're gonna start that episode. It's gonna be a good one, uh,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: for us to begin on.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: What is their most dramatic holiday gift reveal you've ever witnessed?
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: And we're gonna go rapid fire. I think we all
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: have to answer it. What is the most dramatic holiday
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: gift reveal? Or let's go this way, what is the
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: most dramatic thing that's ever happened on a holiday that
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: you've witnessed. We'll be back on Bachelor app Era with
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: part two. Until then, I've been Ben with the Almost
• 23:35
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• 23:37
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